Friday, October 31, 2008

Hidin' Biden


The Daily Beast reports that Team Obama is treating Joe Biden like he is not qualified to speak his mind: According to The Times, Team Obama is so worried about another Biden gaffe that he has been confined to local media in Greenville, N.C., Danville, Va., and all kinds of villes in between.

And from The Times: On the trail this fall, Mr. Biden has curbed his noted volubility — or, rather, had it curbed for him by his masters at Obama headquarters, in Chicago. He never goes to the press section of his campaign plane to talk to the reporters who accompany him, he has not held a news conference since early September and he does not take questions from his audiences (not since he told one person that he thought Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York would have been a better choice for vice president). Then again, Mr. Biden’s assignment does not include outreach to the national news media.